Patrick George

Can't you just see yourself flying sideways down some glorious back road with the wind in your hair in your convertible Scion FR-S, aka the FT-86 Open? There's just one problem: Subaru won't build it. But here in the U.S., Scion may do it themselves.

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See, Subaru is the one who builds the BRZ and its Toyota/Scion-badged versions. And according to a report in Wards Auto, they aren't interested in building a convertible version, no matter how sweet the FT-86 Open Concept looked. The reason for this, Subaru says, is too much re-engineering for safety.

This means Toyota may have to go it alone somehow, which is something they're looking at, Scion vice president Doug Murtha told the publication:

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"It's something we're looking at internally from both a manufacturing standpoint – where do we build something that's relatively low-volume, if not at Subaru – and from an engineering standpoint: Where are those resources going to come from to do it?" Murtha says.

Frankly, I hope they find a way to do it. I have two reasons for this: first, convertibles are badass, and second, with no droptop or powertrain updates in the pipeline, it's hard to see sales for the FR-S and BRZ staying consistent and strong as they've been.